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[Trouvere]

Originally Posted by Berkeley

I know more about this stuff than you think.

as do I and having cast it out I can assure you on this one that I am not wrong.

[berkeley]

I'll try to clarify my position. I do not believe it is a spirit, primarily. God turns men over to their own lusts. I do believe that after that, there can be spiritual influences that keep men in bondage to homosexuality.


(men, mankind)

[Aquila]

Here's an interesting question. Where does the Bible state that there is "a spirit" of this or that? I certainly believe there is a seducing spirit connected to the sin, as with many sins, but I don't believe in a spirit of the sin. There isn't any such thing as a "spirit of smoking".

And it's far more than a spirit in my opinion. Because many have obeyed the gospel and received the baptism of the Holy Ghost and strugged with this. Even preachers have struggled with this.

I'm more inclined to believe that it may be an infirmity of the flesh and that perhaps a seducing spirit seeks to convince individuals to give into it.

[berkeley]

Originally Posted by Aquila

Here's an interesting question. Where does the Bible state that there is "a spirit" of this or that? I certainly believe there is a seducing spirit connected to the sin, as with many sins, but I don't believe in a spirit of the sin.

Agreed

[Trouvere]

Originally Posted by Berkeley

Agreed

and what bible basis do you have for this agreement?

[berkeley]

Originally Posted by Trouvere

and what bible basis do you have for this agreement?

Around here, we make the bible say what we want it to say. Are you new?

[Trouvere]

Originally Posted by Berkeley

Around here, we make the bible say what we want it to say. Are you new?

no but could you use the word...YOUNG i like it better.

[Sister Alvear]

let's all just stop now and pray for those who are in the grip of sin and evil.

[Trouvere]

Let me see.Some of the spirits the bible describes
1.divination
2.familiar spirit
3.jealousy
4.lying spirit
5.perverse spirit
6.haughtiness(pride)
7.heaviness
8.whoredoms
9.infirmity
10.deaf and dumb spirit.
11.spirit of bondage
12.fear
13.seducing spirit.
14.spirit of anti-christ
15.spirit of error
16.spirit of death.

[Trouvere]

Brother Barnes wrote a book on spiritual warfare that is excellent.